25 Aralık 2012 Salı

Asian bids 'closer' to winning Turkey's 2nd nuclear plant project

Project image from Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant of Turkey

Hurriyet Daily News

Asian countries are closer to winning a bid to build Turkey's second nuclear power plant near the Black Sea city of Sinop, the Turkish energy minister said on Tuesday, in a signal that Canada was no longer in the running.

"Even
though we have not reached a final agreement right now, I can say that
Far Eastern countries are closer" to winning the tender on the building
of a second reactor, Taner Yildiz was quoted as saying by the Anatolia
news agency. Ankara is officially in negotiations with China, Japan, South Korea and Canada
to build the second nuclear reactor. The government plans to build
three nuclear power plants within five years in hopes of preventing a
possible energy shortage and reducing dependence on foreign energy
supplies.

Turkey struck a deal with Russia in 2010 to build the country's first power plant at Akkuyu in the southern Mersin province.

Yildiz
said Tuesday that there was no agreement yet on the location of a third
reactor but added that the town of Igneada in the Black Sea region near the Bulgarian border was one of the options.